After the explosion of reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986, the Soviet Union launched an ...

Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

Russia hasn’t publicly commented on the alleged attack on the ‌facility, which is around ‌9 miles from the Chernobyl plant, ...

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl continues to haunt Ukraine, heightened by attacks hitting the country's nuclear plants.

There's an object so deadly that even standing next to it can kill you within minutes. It's also completely man-made and only ...

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Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

"I thought it was a direct hit with a nuclear bomb." The reactor core is open, spewing radioactive poison into the sky as an inferno rages. The disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was ...

With no working reactors, there is no risk of a meltdown. But the ruins from the 1986 disaster still pose considerable dangers. By Henry Fountain The long-defunct Chernobyl plant in Ukraine is ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A mystery involving dogs with bright blue fur at the Chernobyl disaster ...

Nataliia Khodymchuk’s last evening at home was like many that had come before. She stayed in the neat confines of her three-bedroom apartment in Kyiv, slicing garlic to preserve and knitting socks and ...